Movie Review: Interstellar – An Epic By Christopher Nolan

Nearly a three hour saga, Interstellar is one movie that will hold your attention and shall keep you guessing. Its sharp, it’s gripping and it just about has the right stuff put together.

The movie begins quite unassuming in an oddly green but dusty farmland. However, when you see a farming family with a dinner table full of nothing but variations of their cash crop which is known mostly as feedstock for swine and cattle, you know humanity is in some hard times.

The best part about Interstellar is the fact that Christopher Nolan doesn’t try to add a political or religious angle to his film.

Interstellar borrows style and substance from some of the finest in the genre and also adds new twists while paying attention to real science. If a science-fiction movie shies away from imagining the unknown, taking its best shot of what we do not know, then it fails a key aspect of making sci-fi and delivers in this respect very well.

Coming to the performances, well Jessica Chastain playing the grown up daughter of Matthew McConaughey brings real angst and an edge to the movie; even Mackenzie Foy playing her part as a child keeps you glued. However the film belongs to Matthew McConaughey who is perfect in his part.

Interstellar presents a substantial amount of scientific information, physics, mathematics and space-related content in the most entertaining manner and a lot of credit for this should go to it’s writing team of Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan. Both really need to be applauded for this.

The concepts used in the film do access your fantasy about space topics in a way you do not see everyday and that’s what makes Interstellar a great experience and a must watch.

Interstellar may or may not end up someday as a space classic, but either way, it’s far beyond worth seeing for most movie enthusiasts.

A must watch.

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Summary: Interstellar at heart is a father-daughter tale grandly spun across a cosmic tapestry.